Watch: ‘The View’ Just Took Mockery Of GOP Candidates To A Whole New Level

The co-hosts of The View had some fun at the Republican candidates’ expense on Monday’s show, re-creating the awkward beginning of Saturday night’s debate in New Hampshire and Sen. Marco Rubio’s oft repeated line attacking President Obama during it

Whoopi Goldberg then sought to set the record straight about Obama’s tenure in office with some questionable facts.

As the co-hosts of The View were called out one-by-one on Monday morning’s program, Raven Simone and Joy Behar began to enter the stage, but then remained in the wings as the fellow co-hosts passed them by. The two stragglers were clearly mimicking the moment at the ABC News Republican debate, when due to the noise in the auditorium at Saint Anselm’s College in Manchester, Ben Carson and Donald Trump did not hear the moderator say their names.

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The ABC News team then forgot to introduce Gov. John Kasich, blaming the noise in the auditorium.

The co-hosts moved on from mocking Trump and Carson to poking fun at Rubio, who repeated the same line, with slight variations, multiple times over a very short duration. “Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He know’s exactly what he’s doing,” Rubio said.

“Wasn’t Groundhog Day last week?,” Behar joked.

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Paula Faris seemed a little sympathetic to Rubio. “I wouldn’t want to be on the same stage as Chris Christie,” she said. “I was reminded that he was a federal prosecutor. It’s like [the race] turned into Survivor. You have all of these alliances.”

One of those alliances would appear to be former Forida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Christie, whose attacks on Rubio have been identical. They have both argued the 44 year-old senator has not been “tested” and not had to make a “hard decision.”

Michelle Collins said she liked the point Rubio was making. “He was saying a nice thing about Obama. He kept saying ‘Obama is doing exactly what he set out to do,’ I was like, well that’s great,” Collins said.

Goldberg conjectured maybe the reason that Rubio and the Republicans are attacking Obama so much is that they really do not know his record. She offered several statistics including that during his time in office the unemployment rate has fallen from 10 percent to under 5 percent as of last week. What she leaves out is that the country also has the lowest labor participation rate since 1977, with only 62.7 percent of adult Americans in the workforce.

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Goldberg also indirectly acknowledged the federal deficit has doubled under Obama by pointing out it tripled under Ronald Reagan. What she does not point out is vast difference in scope. The National Debt under Reagan tripled from $900 billion to $2.8 trillion, but under Obama it was gone from $9 trillion to nearly $19 trillion.

Further, Reagan’s economic policies made the entire economy one-third larger (the size of the German Gross Domestic Product per year in the 1980s), meaning the country could carry more debt as it rebuilt the military and ultimately won the Cold War.

The View co-host also highlighted that during Obama’s time in office, the deficit has shrunk by 75 percent. It has actually come down by 69 percent, but that is because he and the Democratically-controlled congress ran it up to $1.4 trillion, more than tripling the worst under George W. Bush, which was $458 billion in 2008.

The lowest deficit under Obama ($439 billion in 2015) is nearly identical to the highest under Bush, whose lowest was $158 billion in 2002, despite the United States’ economy taking a major hit in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.